In 1863, Nancy Serena Galbraith was a 44-year-old widow living on her 4,000-acre farm in the Virtue community. Life was undoubtedly hard for her as she struggled to raise eight …
Concord Farragut’s first restaurants
Years ago, in the Concord Farragut community, farm hands were called in at dinnertime for a hearty meal and families gathered around the table together at suppertime to enjoy home …
Concord inventor boosts WWII war effort
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an often-used trite expression. However, the irony for Jesse Mack Benson (1881-1958), lies in the fact that he invented a swing stage scaffold …
Farragut: Lodging, libations and lore
With the holiday travel, New Year’s festivities and celebrating with libations among friends, much can be said and remembered of local watering holes in the Concord area. Some of the …
Spreading Christmas greetings in simpler times ~ Concord 1950
It is early 1950s and the reliable Southern locomotive rolls past houses, farms and fields on its steel path toward Concord, Tennessee. As the mighty engine reaches the depot, it …
William McCamey Fox III: The Concord Prophet
Inconvenience and planning are seldom thought of today if one needs to run to the store for some last-minute staples or for something to wear for a special occasion. But …
Mr. Mac talks water supply in early Concord-Farragut
When Gene McNutt “Mac” Abel (1921-2017) went gently into that good night on Sept. 18, 2017, he took with him a world of information regarding the history of the Concord-Farragut …
School days, then and now
“School Days… Dear old golden rule days.”
Schools are back in session which determines the official start of fall replete with football games, band and cheerleading practice, PTA meetings and many …